AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas Senate has given its initial stamp of approval to a bill that would require preborn babies killed at abortion facilities to be buried or cremated instead of being discarded as medical waste. The move comes just months after a federal judge appointed to the bench by then-President George W. Bush […]
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate voted on Thursday to overturn a rule issued by the Obama administration that bans states from defunding the abortion and contraception giant Planned Parenthood. The resolution now heads to the desk of President Trump, who is expected to sign the measure. “It’s a simple statement of where we used to be,” […]
(Washington Post) — North Carolina lawmakers retreated from the state’s controversial law that restricted which public restrooms transgender people can use, repealing it Thursday in the face of economic pressure in favor of a new bill that gay rights groups attacked as discriminatory. The legislature approved the bill Thursday and Gov. Roy Cooper (D) signed […]
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Attorneys for the last remaining abortion facility in Kentucky filed a federal lawsuit on Wednesday in an effort to block a compliance order that would result in its closure. The Cabinet for Health and Family Services sent a letter to the EMW Women’s Surgical Center in Louisville earlier this month to advise that […]
RALEIGH, N.C. — Republican lawmakers in North Carolina announced on Wednesday night that they have reached a compromise with Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper to repeal the state’s bathroom bill while still protecting bodily privacy. The controversial announcement has pleased some and concerned others who believe that there should be no compromises. “Compromise requires give and […]
LOS ANGELES — Newly-released undercover footage from the Center for Medical Progress captures a Planned Parenthood abortionist laughing about how much force is required to dismember babies when chemical agents aren’t used, and joking that she first thought she needed to go to the gym just to get in shape to perform a dilation and […]
GREENEVILLE, Tenn. — A Tennessee couple has been arrested after allegedly seeking to sell their infant son for $3,000 on Craigslist. John David Cain, 26 and Deanna Greer, 37, were arraigned on Monday at the Greene County General Sessions Court on charges of aggravated child abuse and neglect after they handed off the baby to an undercover […]
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California state prosecutors have charged the pro-life investigator behind the 2014-2015 undercover Planned Parenthood videos with 15 felonies less than a year after Texas officials dropped all charges. State Attorney General Xavier Becerra alleges that David Daleiden of the Center for Medical Progress, along with his co-worker Sandra Merritt, wrongfully recorded Planned […]
ALBANY, N.Y. — Hundreds of New Yorkers rallied at the state capitol on Tuesday to call for the age of criminal responsibility to be raised from 16 to 18. New York and North Carolina are reportedly the only two states in the nation that allow for 16-year-olds to be charged as adults, and Gov. Andrew Cuomo is […]
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Hundreds of Christians flooded the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Government Center on Monday night to stand against a request from abortion advocacy groups that would ban a mobile pro-life pregnancy center from parking outside of an abortion facility. For more than a decade, both pro-life and pro-abortion residents have gathered outside of A Preferred Women’s Health Center, with […]